For some reason, Europe’s largest stock markets have shrugged off election results in Greece and France. Many indexes are down, particularly in Greece. But the markets the world watches most closely —…
Warren Buffett surprised investors when he said Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-A) may buy more newspapers. It already owns the daily in Buffalo and recently bought the paper in Omaha, which is where…
Vringo Inc. (AMEX: VRNG) has filed a Form S-3 with the US Securities and Exchange Commission announcing the sale of 2.76 million shares of the company’s stock on behalf of existing shareholders.…
The Associated Press hired the worst CEO in the newspaper industry as its 13th chief executive. Its board of directors should be ashamed, as should anyone who works at the news company. Gary…
Gannett Co. (NYSE: GCI) is in the media space and has the well-known USA Today brand in its wide portfolio of print and broadcasting properties. After the company announced plans of increasing…
Jon C. Ogg Jon OggThese are some of this Friday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. ARM Holdings PLC (NASDAQ: ARMH) Started as Overweight at Piper Jaffray. AvalonBay Communities, Inc.…
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B, BRK-A) and Warren Buffett have just released the latest holdings of U.S.-listed equities as of December 30, 2011. These public stock holdings have been broken down into…
One of the challenges traditional news media face is that advertising has begun to move online. As its turns out, the news media does not do much better on the internet than in the…
Greece’s parliament passes austerity measures as people riot. (Reuters) President Obama’s new budget plan will be based in part on taxation of the rich. (Reuters) Olympus forecasts a $412 million loss. (Reuters)…
Newspaper publisher Gannett Co. Inc. (NYSE: GCI) has offered an early retirement buyout package to 665 of its more than 32,000 employees. The offer comes one day after The Washington Post Co.…
Paul Ausick courtesy Facebook Inc.New data from online research firm Comscore shows Facebook had 27.9% of the U.S. display advertising market, up from 21% in 2010. Yahoo!’s (NASDAQ: YHOO) share was 11%. Google (NASDAQ: GOOG)…
All three major indexes opened lower again today on weak markets in both Europe and Asia. European markets continued to be weighed down by the lack of a firm agreement on the…
Gannett Co. (NYSE: GCI) is still one of the Warren Buffett media investments, but that is not helping the reaction from Wall Street to the Main Street newspaper (and media) player.The company…
Jon C. Ogg Among the major movers at around noon today are Thomas & Betts Corp. (NYSE: TNB), Pep Boys — Manny, Joe & Jack (NYSE: PBY), Amylin Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: AMLN), GTX Inc. (NASDAQ:…
Paul Ausick Yahoo!’s (NASDAQ: YHOO) earnings were weak, which raised the matter of a business combination with Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) or Aol (NYSE: AOL) again. A more suitable merger would be with a major…
